There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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